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Attracted by radical thinking of philosopy, I have started my philosophical career from the study on Husserl's phenomenology, and soon enlarged my research field to ethics, accepting the issues raised by applied ethics. My present main interest consists in ethics, taking it for the philosophical radical thinking towards the norms that has been taken for granted.

PapersDoes Religion remain a Problem to Philosophy? If so, in What a Way? UnrefereedIn-house publicationSingle-AuthorTetsuhiko Shinagawareligion;metaphysics;philosophy;ethicsThe committee for publishing the commemorative collection of papars for the retirement of professor Oda Yoshiko, The Commemorative Collection of Papers for the Retirement of Professor Oda Yoshikopp.65-892018/2/10～

PapersWhat can Phenomenology do and not do in EthicsUnrefereedAcademic JournalSingle-AuthorTetsuhiko Shinagawaphenomenology;ethicsKansai University Society for Ethics, Ethical Studiesvol. 4, no. 2, 74-89頁2017/12/21～

PapersOn the concept of responsibility in the physician-patient relationship In refereedOtherSingle-AuthorTetsuhiko Shinagawaresponsibility;physician-patient relationship;medical ethicsShibaura Technology University, Materials of research of bioethics and law of lifepp. 32-462017/3/31～

manuscript of presentationManuscript of presentation at the symposium of philosophical assosiation of Japan: the politics of being and the politics of absolute nothingnessUnrefereedAcademic JournalSingle-AuthorTetsuhiko Shinagawapolitics;Heidegger;Kyoto schoolKansai University Society for Ethics, Ethical Studiesvol. 3, no.1, pp. 1-152016/12/23～

PapersAn analysis of the structure of caring relationUnrefereedIn-house publicationSingle-AuthorTetsuhiko Shinagawacare;caring;ethic of careThe Institute of Moralogy, The Research Center for Moral Scienceno. 78, pp. 1-192016/11/15～

Keynote addressPatient Adcocacy from the viewpoint of ethics of careTetsuhiko Shinagawapatient advocacy;nursing;ethic of care2016/5/22～

Academic presentationThe politics of being and the politices of absolute nothingnessTetsuhiko Shinagawapolitics;Heidegger;Kyoto school2016/5/14～Kyoto University

Academic presentationThe status of ethic of care from the viewpoint of a male researcherTetsuhiko Shinagawaethic of care2015/4/26～Tohoku University

rellyThe reversible figure of care and justice and a richer concept of justice: a reply to Kawamoto's and Isa's commentsUnrefereedAcademic JournalSingle-AuthorTetsuhiko Shinagawacare;justiceSeibundo, The Theory of Lawno.33, pp.167-1742015/3/20～

PapersAmbiguity of the Concept of Death with DignityUnrefereedAcademic JournalSingle-AuthorTetsuhiko Shinagawadeath with dignity;dignity;terminal careRisousha, Risouvol.692, pp.111-1222014/3/5～

PapersRethinking nomos and physis: A critique of social contract theory by ethic of careUnrefereedAcademic JournalSingle-AuthorTetsuhiko Shinagawaethic of care;social contract theory;justiceSeibundo, The Theory of Lawvol.32, pp.3-252013/11/1～

PapersRespect for the Humanity of Other Persons: A Reply to Questions from Mr. Kazuyoshi AbikoUnrefereedAcademic JournalSingle-AuthorTetsuhiko Shinagawahuman dignity;かんと;discourse ethics滋賀大学、Dialogicapp.1-172013/3/31～

Book reviewReview: Miwako Ariga, A Feministic Theory of Justice: For Spinning the Band of Care, Keisou Shobou, 2011UnrefereedIn-house publicationSingle-AuthorTetsuhiko Shinagawajustice;feminism;careInstitute of Social Ethics at Nanzan University, Society and EthicsVol. 27, pp.213-2142012/10/31～

International academic conferenceWhat is the satatus of the human being?: manipulating subject, manipulated object, and human dignityUnrefereedSingle-AuthorTetsuhiko Shinagawahuman dignity;humankind;technology2012/5/18～Uehiro Carnegie Oxford Conference 2012Interantional House of Japan

PapersWhy and How Has Hans Jonas Been "Welcomed" in Japan?: A Reply from Japan to LaFleur's InterpretationUnrefereedAcademic JournalSingle-AuthorTetsuhiko ShinagawaJonas;LaFleur;responsibilityResearch Institute for Contemporary Philosophy of Life at Osaka Prefecture University, Journal of Philosophy of LifeVol.2, No.1, pp.15-312012/3/22～Institute for Contemporary Philosophy of Life, Research Organization for the 21st Century, Osaka Prefecture University

PapersWhy and How has Jonas been "welcomed" in Japan?: LaFleur's Interpretation and a Reply from JapanUnrefereedIn-house publicationSingle-AuthorSHINAGAWA, TetsuhikoJonas;Japanese thought2010, p.49-p.642010/12/7～

Keynote addressHans Jonas on the Concept of God after AuschwitzUnrefereedSingle-AuthorTetsuhiko Shinagawa2010/10/3～Japanese Society for Existential ThoughtDoshisha University

Keynote addressEthics, Metaphysics and Religion in a society of plural valuesUnrefereedTetsuhiko Shinagawa2010/10/2～Japan Associaion of Religion and Ethics

Book reviewReview of "Whom does life belong to?" by KAGAWA, TomoakiUnrefereedOtherSingle-AuthorSHINAGAWA TetsuhikoDokushojin, Shukan Dokushojinno.2807, p.42009/10/2～Review: "Whom does life belong?" by KAGAWA Tomoaki

BookI/we as transiently being in the worldUnrefereedMonographCo-authored chapterShinagawa, Tetsuhikolife;person;bodyIwanami Publishers, Lectures on Philosophy vol.8 Philosophy of life/environmentpp.87-1082009/6/12～he progress of biomedicine and medical technology brought up a norm to cope with it, e.g. informed consent: it requires respecting patients as persons intentionally deciding whether to utilize the technology or not. But my body is transformed to an object technologically operated for me as person. Furthermore some human beings must be excluded from the extension of concept of person. As immunity system shows, however, there is "I that dewells in my body". It is not under control of me as person. It emarges in the manner of transplant rejection. Under the advanced operation of human bodies we must investigate 'conditio humana' again.

PapersAn ethical consideration on concerning 'Work, occupation and labor'UnrefereedAcademic JournalSingle-AuthorShinagawa, Tetsuhikowork;occupation;laborJapanese Society of Ethics, Annals of Ethicsno.58, pp.11-202009/3/30～JapaneseA panelist report at the symposium "Work, occupation and labor" held by the Japanese Society for Ethics in 2008. Traditionally man looked for an occupation suited to his/her abilities and underwent discipline. At last man became able to support him/herself (and the family) so that man was admitted as a full-fledged worker. But this narrative is outdated because of the changing forms of employment and the global economical crisis from 2007 onward. This article surveys the responses to new situation by various ethical theories and lays emphasis on the significance of teaching social contract theories and the idea of human dignity in universities.

PapersHans Jonas' concept of ”God after Auschwitz” (2): non-omnipotent God and human responsibilityIn refereedIn-house publicationSingle-AuthorShinagawa, TetsuhikoHolocaust;theologyKansai University, Essays and Studiesvo.58, no.2, pp.1-242009/3/15～JapaneseThis article deals with Hans Jonas's three theological essays: "The concept of God after Auschwitz", "Past and truth", and "Material, spirit and creation". It connects them with his eariler works such as the Phenomen of Life and the Principle of Responsibility and contrasts Jonas's position with Post-Holocaust theology. It also focuses on the difference and relation between "the concept of God after Auschwitz" discussing the Jewish God and the rest developing his philosophical thought of God. Thus it proposes a coherent interpretation of them in the whole context of Jonas's philosophy.

designated questionerQuestions to Professor William R. LaFleur's ”Peripheralized in America: Hans-Jonas as Philosopher and Bioethicist”SHINAGAWA Tetsuhiko2009/2/21～Japanese and English

panelist of a symposiumHerga Kuhse, The Theory of Sancitity of Life in Medicine: A CritiqueUnrefereedOtherCo-authorSHINAGAWA Tetsuhiko;Toshimasa Mizuno;Akihiro Sakai;Hisatake Kato et.al2008/3/21～Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research 2007

BookWhat borders justice?: the principle of responsibility and the ethic of careMonographSingle-AuthorSHINAGAWA TetsuhikoNakanishiya Publishersi-xv, 1-3252007/10/25～Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research 20040401-20070331

PapersEthic of Care, Needs and LawAcademic JournalSingle-AuthorSHINAGAWA TetsuhikoYuhikaku, Sociology of Lawn.64, pp.102-1152006/3/30～This paper deals with Nel Noddings' idea of social philosophy founded on her ethic of care, comparing her concept of needs with a liberalist needs theory of Ignatieff and a communitarian one of Ch. Taylor.Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research 20040401-

BookLife-world, home world, and alien worldUnrefereedMonographCo-authored chapterSHINAGAWA TetsuhikoKoyo Shobo, What should philosophy inquire?, (eds.)Akihiro Takeichi and Yoshinobu Obamapp.187-2062005/10/30～Husserl picked up the concept of life-world as the fundament of sciences, but it is also the same world the products of them flow into. I clarified the intersection of life and sciences in the concept and focus upon the problematic of home world and alien world as a concrete phase of life-world.

Academic presentationEthic, ethics, and what is ethicalSingle-AuthorSHINAGAWA Tetsuhiko2005/10/9～the Japanese Society for EthicsA presentation as one of 6 panelists (Toshio KUWAKO, Tetsuhiko SHINAGAWA, Tetsuro SHIMIZU, Sathoshi KODAMA, Narifumi NAKAOKA, and Naomi NEMOTO) of the symposium entitled ”Reality of Ethics” in the 56th congress of the Japanese Society for ethicsGrant-in-Aid for Scientific Research

PapersEthic, ethics, and what is ethicalAcademic JournalSingle-AuthorSHINAGAWA Tetsuhikothe Japanese Society for Ethics, the Reports of the 56th Congresspp.7-112005/9/20～the Japanese Society for EthicsGrant-in-Aid for Scientific Research

Book reviewUnrefereedAcademic JournalSingle-AuthorSHINAGAWA,Tetuhiko2005/7/29～

Academic presentationThe problems raised by ethic of care and their siginificanceSingle-AuthorSHINAGAWA Tetsuhikojustice;care2005/5/15～the Japanese association of sociology of lawGrant-in-Aid for Scientific Research

OrganizerWelfare as InstitutionCo-authorSHINAGAWA Tetsuhiko;MIZUTANI MasahikoKansai Ethical Association, Ethical Studiesvol.35,pp.35-432005/4/20～Summary for the symposium ”Welfare as Institution” in the reference of the Kansai Ethical Association 2004. I was one of coodinators of the symposium.

PapersA Dialogue with Professor Berque: from the standpoint of ethics (including environmental ethics)OtherSHINAGAWA TetsuhikoKansai University, International Symposium Modernity in milieux and technique Report285-297,298-3002005/2/28～Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research

presentaionThe role of moral philosopherSHINAGAWA Tetsuhiko2005/2～Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas

Lecturea comment from the viewpoint of environmental ethicsUnrefereedSHINAGAWA Tetsuhikopp.112-1172004/12/8～

LectureInternship at schools: a new attempt of the consortium of universities in OsakaUnrefereedSHINAGAWA,Tetuhiko2004/11/27～

Academic presentationA Dialogue with Professor Berque: from the standpoint of ethics (including environmental ethics)Single-AuthorSHINAGAWA Tetsuhiko2004/10/30～International Symposium: Modernity in milieux and techniqueGrant-in-Aid for Scientific Research

LectureIdeal and purpoce of the relationship between universities and high schools from the standpoint of the formerSHINAGAWA,Tetuhiko2004/10/22～

PresentationThe role of moral philosopherUnrefereedSHINAGAWA Tetsuhiko2004/8/30～Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research

LectureOn connetion between universities and highschoolsSHINAGAWA Tetsuhiko2004/8/20～Institute for Democrativ Education, Kinki branch, Seminar on Students' Life

BookSanctity of Life: its lost effect and its rediscoveryUnrefereedMonographCo-authored chapterSHINAGAWA TetsuhikoBioethics;Sanctity of Life;Dignity of HumansIwanami Publishers, Lectures on Applied Ethics vol.1 Lifepp.128-1462004/7/8～”Sanctity of life” and ”human dignity” have been criticized as invalid ideas to solve for problems in bioethics. It might be the case in the context that focuses on distributive justice of resources. However, the significance of these ideas consists in dealing with what could not be distributed at the mercy of human beigns. This article revised these ideas referring to Dworkin's Life's Dominion and Habermas's Future of human nature: on the way to a liberal eugenics.

Research reportSummary: Reconstruction of normative sciences coping with contemporary ethical problemsUnrefereedOtherSingle-AuthorSHINAGAWA TetsuhikoKansai University,Reconstruction of normative sciences coping with contemporary ethical problemspp.1-342004/3/10～Kansai University Special Research Fund

PapersWhat Borders on JusticeUnrefereedOtherSingle-AuthorSHINAGAWA Tetsuhikoresponsibility;care;justiceKansai University,Reconstruction of normative sciences coping with contemporary ethical problemspp.116-1292004/3/10～Kansai University Special Research Fund

Translated bookRobert M. Veatch, The Basics of Bioethics, 2ndMonographCo-authorSHINAGAWA Tetsuhikoethics;medicine;bioethicsMedicus Publishing Inc.pp.iv-xi, pp.1-38,pp.68-90,and pp.213-2892004/1/1～A translation of The Basics of Bioethics, 2nd., written by Robert M. Veatch. I translated introduction, appendix, and chapters 1,2,4,6,9, supervising the whole, and wrote introduction by translators. Chapter 8 and 10 were translated by Ito and me.

LectureCare as Essence of NursingUnrefereedSHINAGAWA Tetsuhiko2002/12/2～Saga Medical College Hospital Seminar for Nurses

essayMovement of Reformation of Liberal Arts Curriculum: A Factor of Meaning and Expectation of Critical Thinking as CourseUnrefereedIn-house publicationSingle-AuthorSHINAGAWA Tetsuhiko;logic;liberal artskyoto University, PROSPECTUSvol.5 pp.1-112002/12/1～Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research

LectureMeaning of Applied Ethics and Position of Information EthicsUnrefereedSHINAGAWA Tetsuhikoinformation2002/11/8～Foundation of Information Ethics: Chiba Forum, 29thSee no.50.Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

BookOrganization and ResponsibilityUnrefereedMonographCo-authored chapterSHINAGAWA Tetsuhikopersonal responsibility;collective responsibilitySekai Shisou-sha, For Anyone Who Will Study Social Philosophy2001/5/20～

PapersOn Liberalism in BioethicsUnrefereedOtherSingle-AuthorSHINAGAWA Tetsuhikocommuntarianism;liberalism;bioethics2000/10～This paper deals with the trend of liberalism in bioethics and its rival, communitarian approach, referring to Engelhardt, Pellegrino and Thomasma etc.The Uehiro Foundation of Ethics and Education 19980401-19990331

Book reviewHans Jonas, The Principle of Responsibility, translated by Hisatake Kato et. al.UnrefereedOtherSingle-AuthorSHINAGAWA Tetsuhikoprinciple of responsibility;principe of responsibility;princip of responsibility;JonasDokushojin23502000/8/25～

PapersWhy and How does Ethics deal with Environmental Affairs?UnrefereedAcademic JournalSingle-AuthorSHINAGAWA Tetsuhikoethics;environmentInstitute for Policy Sciences 21 Century Forumvol.74, pp.32-372000/7/20～A survey of the reason and entitlement of environmental ethical thinking and its several arrpoaches such as anthropocentrism and non-anthropocentrism

Research reportAppendix to the Whole DiscussionUnrefereedAcademic JournalSingle-AuthorSHINAGAWA TetsuhikoThe Japanese Society for Ethics, the Annual of Ethics2000/3/30～An appendix to the report of the whole discussion of the symposium " 20th Century -- Questions to Ethics " in the 50th congress of the Japanese Society for Ethics. I added the questions put in the symposium and provided answers to them. See 534.

LectureIs Brain Death Death of the Human Being? The Ambiguity of this Question.UnrefereedSHINAGAWA Tetsuhikoambiguity;person;brain death1999/11/28～the Medical Conference of Korean in Japan, the 22th Congress

BookLife and Ethics -Bioethics and the Life of EthicsUnrefereedMonographCo-authored chapterSHINAGAWA Tetsuhikocommunitarianism;principlism;20th century;emotionalism;metaethics;bioethicsNakanishiya Shuppan, What is Ethica? An Introduction to Modern Ethics1999/11/10～The ethical issues raised in medicine since the latter half of 20th century called attention to the task of ethics. When the prevalence of metaethics faded away, some expected the new medical ethics as a restoration of normative ethics. But we cannot deny the claim that moral philosophers do not have more moral expertise than others do. So it remains a critical problem what ethics can do and how we should do ethics. I try to explain it in this article showing the controversy between principlism and its criticism in bioethics.

Academic presentationThe Accountability of Ethics : Bioethics as a ClueUnrefereedSingle-AuthorSHINAGAWA Tetsuhiko1999/10/17～the Japanese Society for Ethics, The Symposium ” 20th Century : Questions to Ethics ” in the 50th Congressof the Japanese Society for EthicsPresentation as one of two reporters (KATO HIsatake and I) of the symposium ”20th century: Questions to Ethics” in the 50th congress of the Japanese Society for Ethics. In this symposium 6 themes were picked up: war and revolution, the necessity of states, the essense of Japanese, technology and ethics, gender and sexuality, and informed society. These subjects are rooted in our social life and therefore lead to practical problems. What role ethics and moral philosopher can and should take, in tackling cope with practical problems, under the serious acception of the claims raised by ethics in the 20th century. See tackling cope with practical problems, if we seriously accept the claims raised by ethics in 20th century. See 34.

PapersThe Accountability of Ethics : Bioethics as a ClueUnrefereedAcademic JournalSingle-AuthorSHINAGAWA Tetsuhikometaethics;20th century;emotionalism;bioethics;applied ethics;accountability;ethicsthe Japanese Society for Ethics, The Reports of the Congress in 1999 of the Japanese Society for Ethics1999/9/15～Ethical issues occur in all areas of our social life. Morality is applied to anywhere. Then moral philosophers do not always find the problem at first. Furthermore everybody as a moral agent can give an answer to it. Not only ethics but also many other sciences can contribute to solve the ethical issues. Then what is the task of moral philosophers? In 20th century the main interest of ethics has removed from metaethics to applied or practical ethics. The prevalence of metaethics has been derived from the claim that moral philosophers do not have more expertise than others do. This claim continues to be true, even though moral philosophers come to commit actual and practical problems actively. The task proper to moral philosophers would not lie in sentencing the guideline as moral experts, but in helping to express the guideline in the appropriate words, which are based on the site where the moral issues occurs. Thus they should take a role of coordinator among various moral opinions.

PapersNature,Environment,and Human Being -Hans Jonas' The Imperative of ResponsibilityUnrefereedAcademic JournalSingle-AuthorSHINAGAWA Tetsuhikoresponsibility;Jonas;human being;environment;naturethe Kansai Philosophical Association, Arche1999/7/26～Because of the ability to detach from anything human beings has been in a position to regard the whole and global nature as their environment and to change it eventually irrespectively in terms of technologies and the respective lifestyle. The ethics, which is demanded in the time of science and technology, must care for the influence that the activities of the present human generation will bring about to the future generation and the nature. Although biocentrism is one of the candidates of the demanded ethics, it is criticized by anthropocentrism that it denies the moral status of human beings. But anthropocentrism is often no other than a version of human egoism. Hans Jonas claims that human beings deserve to survive because they alone can take responsibility, although the life of human beings is as much as one of other living creatures. Jonas is not anthropocentric, because he does not entitle a privilege to human beings. He also is not biocentric, because he admits the moral responsibility proper to human beings. The supporters of discourse ethics often call Jonas' imperative of responsibility a kind of supererogation. However his idea of responsibility can open a road to a new ethics that respect the essence of human beings as moral agents and the nature, which is apt to be made light of in the discourse held among human beings.

Edited bookTechnologies and EnvironmentUnrefereedMonographCo-editorICHIKAWA Hiroshi;KOJIMA Hajime;SATOU Takaharu;SHINAGAWA Tetsuhiko (co-editors)environment;technologyBaifukan1999/2/25～23 authors of humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences develop various topics in this book. I edited it with ICHIKAWA Hiroshi, KOJIMA Hajime, and SATOU Takaharu. I wrote three articles. In ” Human Attitude towards Environment ” (pp.5-12), I discussed a kind of environmental ethics with religious background (Lynn White's criticism against Jewish-Christian tradition and MINAKATA Kumakusu's ecology) and another kind of environmental ethics on the equal relation (the rights of the coming generations , animal liberation, and Leopold's land ethic). In ” Whom does life belong to?”(pp.99-105), I discussed the background and the ethical reasons of informed consent. In ” Is environment protected for human being?” (pp.261-266), I discussed anthoropocentrism, biocentrism, and Jonas' imperative of responsibility.

CommentaryA Discourse of the MethodUnrefereedMonographSingle-AuthorSHINAGAWA TetsuhikoMedia Factory, The Presents from Iron Men in Sciences:A Book Guide to 14 and 171999/1/11～

Magazine article”Does Brain Dead Mean the Death of the Human Being?” RevisitedUnrefereedOtherSingle-AuthorSHINAGAWA TetsuhikoDokushojin,The Weekly Readers1999～These essays were parts of a series of ” Brain Death and Organ Transplantation Revisited” in the Weekly Readers since September in 1999. I discussed the unresolved issues and forth-coming issues in reference to the first attempt of organ transplantation from the brain dead in Japan.

Academic presentationNature, Environment, and Human BeingUnrefereedSingle-AuthorSHINAGAWA Tetsuhikoresponsibility;Jonas;human being;environment;nature1998/10/11～the Kansai Philosophical Association, the Symposium ” Nature as Environment ” in the 51th CongressA presentation as one of the panelists of the Symposium (Nature as Environment) in the 51th congress of the Kansai Kansai Philosophical Association. See 33.

BookShould Life Be Respected in any Case?UnrefereedMonographCo-authored chapterSHINAGAWA Tetsuhikoethics;quality;sanctity;lifeNakanishiya Shuppan, Moral Aporia1998/2/20～Should we respect lives in any case? Or should we not always in any case? These opinions make up an antinomy. But if the former emphasizes the absolute sanctity of life, it will fall into inconsistency. For human beings cannot live a life without sacrificing other living creatures. This criticism applies also to vegetarians. So the latter seems to win. It entails that we should protect the lives only if they deserve to live. Man can sometimes allow abortion, ceasing to save a life, and euthanasia for the due reasons. The latter opinion consists in the appeal to justice. But the former opinion is not absurd. It advocates sympathy to other living creatures. So even if we are compelled to kill other lives, we can still respect them, grieving them and us, which cannot but help living only by killing each other. Then the two opinions do not make up an antinomy. While the former focuses on the attitude towards the life, the latter focuses on the justice.

BookWhat Should Philosophers and Moral Philosophers Do in Bioethics?UnrefereedMonographCo-authored chapterSHINAGAWA Tetsuhikocommitment;philosopher;bioethicsistSekai Shisou-sha, For Anyone Who Will Study Bioethics1998/1/30～Bioethics is an attempt to make clear the issues and to answer the questions with value and norms about the artificial intervention and nonintervention to human life by medicine and biology. But there are various answers, because we cannot find the only ethic. Philosophers and moral philosophers are not in a position to give the only ethic. Then what should they do in bioethics? Their task is to make clear, sort out, and coordinate the opinions to deepen the arguments.

PapersWe Have not Discussed it after All -At the Time of the Passage of a Bill for Organ TranplantationIn refereedIn-house publicationSingle-AuthorSHINAGAWA Tetsuhikobill;person;Japan;organ transplantation;brain deathHiroshima University, Studies in Culture and the Humanities1997/12/20～The question " Does brain death mean the death of the human being?" had been repeated by 1997, when the bill of organ transplantation passed in Japan. But we have not yet discussed it after all because man had not been aware of the ambiguity of this question. The concept of human being has a normative sense and a descriptive sense. Furthermore while some interpret brain death as the death of the human being because of the central function of brain in the whole body, others do so because of the intellectual function of the brain, which is a specimen of human being. And while some deny brain death as the death of the human being because of its keeping circulation, others do so because the human death does not depend on the body of the human, but on the relation of the dead and the surviving people. So we need to detail the various parties and analyze their grounds.

PapersThe Recognization by Analogy and the Concept of PersonUnrefereedOtherSingle-AuthorSHINAGAWA TetsuhikoHiroshima University, Iconicity in Expressions and the Act of Meaning1996/3/29～199304-199603

PapersThe Foundations of Environmental EthicsUnrefereedOtherSingle-AuthorSHINAGAWA Tetsuhikofoundation;ethics;environmentToyo University, The New Development of Applied Ethics:Towards the Synthesis between Micro and Macro Points of View1996/3～199404-199603

PapersNotes on BioethicsUnrefereedAcademic JournalSingle-AuthorSHINAGAWA TetsuhikoHiroshima University Society for Comparative Studies of Cultures, Comparative Studies of Cultures1994/11/20～

BookLife and EthicsUnrefereedMonographCo-authored chapterSHINAGAWA Tetsuhikoperson;life;bioethicsSekai Shisou-sha, For Anyone Who Will Study Ethics1994/9/30～There are a lot of controversial issues about the advance of medical practice, such as organ transplantation from brain-dead people, euthanasia, and abortion. The concept of person seems to give a definite answer to many questions. For this concept advises us to esteem only the people with self-consciousness. It is decided under the criteria of the functional and physiological conditions to have self-consciousness. But while the concept of autonomy as the ground to respect person derived from Kant, the concept of autonomy used in bioethics is not Kantian because of its approval of desire, but is as much as self-decision in J. S. Mill's sense. And it lacks Mill's criticism against mass society. It is close to the effective views of the society of the human being in the modernity. Therefore the self-decision may lead to self-alianation.

Chapter or Sectionconscience of something, empty intention, act, mean, the object x, hyle/morpheIn refereedMonographCo-authored chapterSHINAGAWA TetsuhikoKoubundou, The Encyclopedia of Phenomenology1994/3/22～In the Encyclopedia of Phenomenology, I took charge of 6 items that especially are relevant to Husserl's philosophy: conscience of something, empty intention, act, mean, the object X, and hyle / morphe.

BookThe Context of the MundaneUnrefereedMonographCo-authored chapterSHINAGAWA Tetsuhikoalienness;home;mundaneText and Interpretation, Iwanami Shoten1994/3/22～We are too familiar to the mundane world to be aware of it anew. We adopt a concept of home-world to express this familiarity, which is contrary to alien-world. It is through our acceptance of the narrative, which governs and penetrates the world, that we become at home in the world. We enter into to the already made narrative and only come to evolve our lives as a co-author, which is shown by A. MacIntyre. But whereas we life in various worlds, we may become stiffen and deformed, if we indulge in a certain world and appeals to its narrative. This suppression of the teleology of narratives comes from the confusion of the special world with the universal mundane world.

Edited bookSelf and Others -Encounters with Various Selves-UnrefereedMonographCo-editorIKEGAMI Tetsuji;NAGAI Hitoshi;SAITOU Yoshimichi;SHINAGAWA Tetsuhiko (Co-editors)others;selfShouwadou1994/2/15～In this book the common subject, self and others, was discussed with different approaches in various disciplines such as philosophy, ethics, psychology, primatology, and cultural anthropology. I edited it with IKEGAMI Tetsuji, NAGAI Hitoshi, and SAITOU Yoshimichi. I took charge of the 4th chapter ” Self and Others in Bioethics ” (pp.199-264) and put together an article ” The Trap of Dichotomy : Ordinary / Extraordinary, Normal / Abnormal, Health / Sickness ”(pp.202-223).
We recognize ourselves as healthy and normal beings in our ordinary lives. So extraordinary events such as sickness, disorders, and death seem to be alien to us at present. In fact our self-awareness to be healthy and normal relies upon feeble grounds but is held ordinarily as if it were secure. It has firmed up more and more with the progress and acceptance of technologies. However it also tends to suppress the seemingly healthy and normal beings under the exclusion ofthe alien conditions that cannot but help occurring in our lives.

BookSalutationUnrefereedMonographCo-authored chapterSHINAGAWA TetsuhikoShouwadou, Micro Ethics1993/9/30～In this book the writers try to call forth the interest of the readers, picking up familiar topics in everyday life and their relevance to ethics. I refer to stereotype expressions of the salutes and show the meanings they have in human relations.

PapersAs a Problem of "Human Being" rather than one of Death -On the Controversy: Whether does brain death mean the death of the human being?In refereedIn-house publicationSingle-AuthorSHINAGAWA Tetsuhikobrain death;personWakayama Medical College, Bulletin of Wakayama Medical College1992/3/20～The question whether brain death means the death of the human being has been repeated through the controversy as to brain death and organ transplantaion in Japan. But the concept of human being is ambiguous. It has an ethical meaning as well as a biological one. The question falls into nonsense because of the negligence of this ambiguity.

BookThe Advance of Medical Practice and PhilosophyUnrefereedMonographCo-authored chapterSHINAGAWA Tetsuhikophilosophy;technology;medicineKoubundou, Philosophy and Medical Practice1992/2/15～Various technologies in medicine have recently evolved with a host of ethical problems. Whether to be for or against the advances of the contemporary medicine relies upon whether to be for and against the value and norms under which they have been developed. In this article I argue on informed consent, reproductive technologies and euthanasia and illustrate what norms will be reinforced or eliminated through the prevalence of them. People of different professions, values, moral opinions and religions should participate the discussion on the advanced medicine.

PapersThe Presense of Bodies of Others and the Attitudes towards Others - in Schutz's Idea of Social WorldIn refereedIn-house publicationSingle-AuthorSHINAGAWA Tetsuhikosociety;Schutz;perception;body;OthersWakayama Medical College, Bulletin of Wakayama Medical College1991/3/20～Alfred Schutz, a phenomenological sociologist, detailed and sorted out various ways of the relation between self and others in terms of perception. Although this approach has merit in analyzing the face-to-face relation, it has demerit in explaining the specialty of the intimate relation.

BookNorms Functioning in the Hidden MannerUnrefereedMonographCo-authored chapterSHINAGAWA TetsuhikoKeiou Tuushin, The Foundation of Norms1990/10/10～Involved in an action enthusiastically, we cannot aware the grounds on which we rely implicitly. ”Why did you do it? You are responsible for it” This question elicits from us moral norms under which we intended or allowed ourselves to conduct the action. The question as to responsibility makes moral norms explicit. It is in a hidden manner that moral norms are functioning in the daily life. For they are undertaken through the tradition of the linguistic and cultural communities without keen awareness of them.

PapersWaldenfels on the Home in the AliennessIn refereedIn-house publicationSingle-AuthorSHINAGAWA Tetsuhikoalienness;home;WaldenfelsWakayama Medical College, Bulletin of Wakayama Medical College1990/3/20～A certain room or space may have its own meaning. This characteristic is expressed with the concepts of home-world and alien-world. The richness of these concepts is shown in the article ”The home in the Alienness ” written by Bernhard Waldenfels, a Germany phenomenologist. But we also conclude that he only appeals to the middle region so that we find no norm, which can regulate it and evade mere compromising.

Academic presentationNorms Functioning in the Hidden MannerUnrefereedMonographSingle-AuthorSHINAGAWA Tetsuhikophenomenology;responsibility;norm1989/10/21～the Japanese Society for Ethics, the 40th CongressThe presentation at the Symposium "Foundation of norms" of the 40th Conference of Japanese Society for Ethics. See the article "Norms functioning in hidden manner".

BookNew Reproductive Technologies and SocietyUnrefereedMonographCo-authored chapterSHINAGAWA Tetsuhikosociety;technology;reproductionSekai Shisou-sha, The Present of Bioethics1989/2/20～We have been able to utilize various types of newly invented reproductive engineering: artificial insemination, in vitro fertilization (IVF), sperm donation, egg donation, rental womb, surrogate mother and deliberate choice of the sex of fetuses. Warnock's report delineates the guideline on the use of reproductive technologies. It based on the ground that the users themselves should not be exploited and do harm to others who took part in the reproduction projects of users. Richard M. Hare challenges to it. According to Hare, the report relies upon moral intuitions without support that shows how wrong consequences will be brought about by the introduction of reproductive technologies. But utilitarians such as Hare are apt to make much of nothing other than the obviously foreseen consequences and tend to concede to the future generation the decision to esteem new technologies. They are too optimistic about the elimination of moral norms which may be occurred by the prevalence of reproduction technologies. We should not neglect what values and norms are at stake with the advance of these technologies.

PapersIdeality of Meanings - Its Certitude and
FlactuationUnrefereedAcademic JournalSingle-AuthorSHINAGAWA Tetsuhikoideality;meaning;senseRisou-sha, Risou1987/10/1～Meanings are permanent through time in their essences as well as fluctuate with the change of their cultural and historical background. I investigated the origin of these contrary features in relation to communities that share meanings.

PapersThe personal Ego -in Husserl's EgologyIn refereedSingle-AuthorSHINAGAWA TetsuhikoHusserl;person;egothe Philosophical Association of Japan, Philosophy1987/5/1～Husserl provides three ideas of ego: the pure ego, the personal ego and the ego as monade. The pure ego is found out by the phenomenological reduction, purified from all the empirical features of the ego familiar to us in the natural everyday life. The personal ego is constituted by the pure ego as the one and same ego through the various experiences that belong to the ego as monade (the whole stream of the own experiences). The personal ego has the identity in terms of its habitual convictions that the pure ego has cultivated through its experiences. The personal ego seems to be empirical and objective, partly because it is constituted as well as objective things. But it is not the case. While the pure ego has free activities of experiences, knowledge and values as the constituting self, the personal ego brings about the condition to make possible and constrain these activities of the pure ego. Such a dynamic relation puts the two egos to the yoke.

PapersHussel on HabitIn refereedAcademic JournalSingle-AuthorSHINAGAWA TetsuhikoIdeas;Husserl;person;ego;habitthe Kansai Philosophical Association, Annual of the Kansai Philosophical Association1987/3/25～Husserl refers and deals with the idea of habit in Ideas II and Cartesian Meditations. The idea of habit seems to be less important than the idea of the pure and transcendental ego. But the idea of habit enables the pure ego to be embodied as a personal ego and equipped with the habitual convictions, which the ego has developed through the stream of experimental life. Husserl has not evolved the idea of habit to the full. Nevertheless we can find in the idea of habit a clue to the interesting process of systemizing the system of convictions proper to each ego and converting from what it was.

BookWords in DialogueUnrefereedMonographCo-authored chapterSHINAGAWA Tetsuhikosense;phenomenology;word;dialogueSekai Shisou-sha, The Present of Phenomenology1987/2/10～Taking one of two roles (speaker and listener) respectively through a dialogue, we learn to realize each other gradually. We have the one common world. In the meantime the differences of the views of the world become conspicuous. It can contribute to correct our own comprehension. Analyzing the structure of dialogue, man can recognize the feature of fundamental intersubjectivity of human beings.

Academic presentationHusserl on HabitIn refereedAcademic JournalSingle-AuthorSHINAGAWA Tetsuhikoperson;IdeasⅡ;Husserl;ego;habit1986/10/10～The Kansai Philosophical Association, the 39th congresspresentation in the 39th congress of the Kansai Philosophical Association on October 10 in 1986 at Nagoya University. See No.5.

Translated bookHermann Schmitz, The Phenomenology of Body and FeelingUnrefereedMonographCo-authorSHINAGAWA Tetsuhiko;UOZUMI YouichiPhenomenology;feeling;body;SchmitzSangyou Toshopp.191-2161986/9/25～Collected papers of Hermann Schmitz, a German phenomenologist. I translated the fourth chapter, corporeal springs of the exprence of time and the problem of Augustine, with Uozumi Youichi.

PapersHusserl on IndividualIn refereedAcademic JournalSingle-AuthorSHINAGAWA Tetsuhikoconsciousness;Phenomenology;Husserl;individualKyoto University Tetsugaku Ronsou Kankoukai, Tetsugaku Ronsou1986/7/1～How do we apprehend a thing before us as individual? We realize an individual in terms of what it is -- its essence. But essences are not individual, but general. Although an individual is an example of its essence, it does not mean that we treat 'this' individual as an example of the general. If we try to realize the feature of 'this', we must investigate intentional experiences in which we are aware of this individual. An intentional object appears in its own present with its peculiar horizontal structures (retention and protention). The individuality of this individual is due to the present that it occupies as an object in the stream of intentional experiences. The ego evolves its habit, namely its system of continuing convictions in each experience.Things appear and are apprehended in the background of the habit. Therefore the same individual appears in each present with different nuances in terms of the change of our system of habitual convictions.

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